...20 cranberries Pour 2.5 ounces of juice per glass, top off with 6 ounces of champagne, garnish with 5 cranberries. 3. This Weeks Recipe: Primo Margarita 1-1/2 oz. Patron Silver Tequila (Try other silver tequilas, just make sure that your tequila is 100 percent Agave) 3/4-oz. Cointreau 2 oz. fresh sour freshly-squeezed juice of one lime Directions: Prepare fresh sour by simply mixing 2 parts fresh, filtered lemon juice with 1 part simple syrup. To make simple syrup, dissolve an equal amount of granulated sugar in boiling water (i.e, 2 cups sugar dissolved in 2 cups boiling water) and allow to cool. Select the perfect limes, they should be Peruvian limes, dark-green, soft and pliable. Store your limes at room temperature and roll them on a hard surface for maximum juice extraction. Hand-extract lime juice, using a juice extractor, into a 16 oz. mixing glass. Add fresh sour, Cointreau and tequila to mixing glass. Add ice and shake until well blended. Strain your Margarita into an ice-filled 14 oz. goblet. Remember, never use the same ice to serve a drink as you used to prepare it. Garnish with a wedge of lime.Salting the rim of glass is not recommended. If, however, you want to rim glass with salt, simply rub the outside of the lip with fresh lime and dip into a bowl of kosher salt. 4. Blood-Orange Margarita Ingredients ▪ 1 1/2 oz. gold tequila ▪ 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier or mandarin liqueur ▪ 1/2 oz. lime juice ▪ 1 oz. blood-orange juice ▪ 1/2 oz. sugar...
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...In Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov utilizes opposing forces to drive the major themes of the novel-- Good versus evil, spiritual life versus material life, and justice versus injustice. These contrasting ideas are dependent upon each other to embody the messages of the novel. Woland, the devil, is the main arbitrator of justice and evil, but also creates the main paradox in the novel. Unlike the devil of traditional Christian teachings, Woland is capable of good and benevolence. This paradox plays an important role in both the story in Moscow and Jerusalem. Woland causes the characters, and the reader, to question life by encouraging awareness of the interdependency of Good and Evil in the proper functioning of life. In the novel, all evil is necessary in order to obtain a greater good. However, we see this end goal lost in the stories of Caesar and Stalin. They no longer have are able to recognize the difference between constructive evil and destructive power. However, evil seems to play as a nameless character in the novel, and in turn, in Stalinist times. Stalin does not directly kill any individuals, and neither does Caeser, but people still live in fear of him. People are surrounded by this terror, and only those who are self-aware and willing to call reality into question are able to create meaning for themselves. Bulgakov uses characters to possess this ability to display how meaning can be attained even when surrounded by terror and repression. People...
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